You have seen people pushing a bus to rev up the vehicle's engine. On Tuesday, passengers of a train were asked by its driver to get out and do an encore.
The bizarre incident took place near Banahi station in Bihar, about 80 km from Patna, with the passengers slogging it out for more than half-an-hour to move the electric locomotive.
It so happened that a passenger of the Patna-Buxar electric modified unit train pulled its emergency chain and the locomotive came to a halt in a neutral zone, a 14-metre length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires. A train's momentum usually allows it to continue moving through neutral zones.
Danapur rail division PRO R K Singh said the driver detached the locomotive and asked the passengers to push it into the power zone area. Once it was achieved, the driver reversed the locomotive, re-attached it to the coaches and resumed the on ward journey.
Railway officials admitted the freak incident had no precedent, at least not in the Danapur rail division.
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